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Use the search bar on the UIC Library Home Page to look for plays in the library catalog. You can search by entering the title of the play or the playwright's name. You can also try searching by topic and including the term "playscripts" in your search to find some of the titles in our collection that are categorized as scripts and might be of interest.
When you search in the UIC Library Catalog, your results will include some physical texts that can be found in Daley Library as well as some digital resources available digitally through UIC's databases such as Drama Online. For digital plays, follow the instructions on the record page to access the text online.
If you need support searching for scripts in the library catalog, don't hesitate to reach out to a librarian!
UIC students, staff, and faculty have access to a number of online databases that provide full-text or excerpts of scripts. Bellow are three popular databases for searching for plays and scripts. As with searching in the UIC Library Catalog, you can search in these databases using a play title, playwright's name, or topic.
Drama Online is an award-winning digital library of nearly 4,000 playtexts, over 700 hours of video, over 400 audio plays, and over 500 books of criticism and performance practice from leading theatre publishers and companies. UIC subscribes to the Core Collection and Critical Studies & Performance Practice.